IMAGINE YOU ARE TRAPPED in a room with 20 other people. You share one sink. You have limited access to soap and hand sanitizer. You can’t leave. Then, someone starts coughing. This is the reality for the nearly 15,000 individuals who are incarcerated in crowded Massachusetts prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. As physicians working […]
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january 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of MassINC’s New Skills for a New Economy report. The report’s main finding that 1.1 million workers in Massachusetts—a third of the state’s workforce —lacked skills essential to the “new economy” was broadcast far and wide. In one fell swoop, an issue that previously generated very little attention was […]